Yoko Ogawa
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He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.She is an astute young Housekeeper-with a ten-year-old son-who is hired to care for the Professor. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain...
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An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor-who...
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A polícia da memória, publicado originalmente em 1994, chega ao Brasil pela Estação Liberdade. O livro, finalista do International Booke Prize 2020, e do National Book Awards 2019, foi traduzido em diversos idiomas e, mais uma vez, marca o talento da escritora contemporânea Yoko Ogawa.
Em narrativa melancólica, o leitor é conduzido ao submundo das memórias perdidas. Em tom de ficção cientifica, uma ilha governada por policiais que buscam...
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Um velho docente de matemática, uma empregada doméstica e o pequeno filho de dez anos desta formam a trinca protagonista de A fórmula preferida do Professor, romance que fez decolar a carreira internacional da japonesa Yoko Ogawa, de quem a Estação Liberdade também publicou O Museu do Silêncio [2016]. Best-seller instantâneo no Japão quando de seu lançamento em 2003, A fórmula preferida do Professor acumula mais de quatro milhões de exemplares...
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Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear...
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.
“A story of first enchantments and last gasps…Effervescent." —New York Times Book Review
“Yoko...
“A story of first enchantments and last gasps…Effervescent." —New York Times Book Review
“Yoko...